A staggering share of all sandhill cranes in North America converge on one surprisingly narrow stretch of river, and the ...

A Nebraska region becomes a must-see location for birdwatchers from February to April when it becomes an annual migration ...

Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the ...

A University of Nebraska report written by Dority, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Business Research Director Eric ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) — Sandhill cranes and whooping cranes are beginning their migration to the Tri-Cities area, but the birds are arriving with H5N1 avian influenza that has reached the region.

Listen to the predawn sounds of the sandhill cranes roosting on the Platte River in Nebraska. First, a murmur. Then wild chatter. And finally, takeoff! The Crane Trust has learned that one of the ...

ALDA — The world's largest gathering of cranes draws people from around the world to south-central Nebraska each March.

The Crane Trust learned that one of the sandhill cranes that stopped in central Nebraska last spring traveled 19,000 miles to nesting grounds in Russia.

ALDA — About a dozen people, on a foot bridge crossing the Platte River, looked intensely Sunday evening, as the sun was slowly setting, at a recently grazed pasture filling with thousands of sandhill ...

ALDA — The world's largest gathering of cranes draws people from around the world to south-central Nebraska each March.